"Nasty Substances To Watch Out For in Pet Food"

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"Nasty Substances To Watch Out For in Pet Food"
By Dr. Corrine Chapman DVM
Rocky Ridge Vet Care
Calgary, Alberta, Canada


"Animal Fat- Rendered fat is too rancid or deemed inedible for humans. Restaurant grease has become a major component of feed-grade animal fat. It is stabilized with powerful antioxidants to retard spoilage, then sprayed onto extruded kibble to increase palatability.

Artificial Colouring - Used in pet foods, treats and rawhide toys. Has no nutritional value. Known allergic reactions in humans to FC&C Red and Yellow No. 5 and 7 dyes.

BHA and BHT - Preservatives potentially toxic to the kidneys.

By-Products - An ingredient produced in the course of making a primary food ingredient, can include hair, feathers, tongues, beaks, eyeballs, feet, claws, underdeveloed eggs, intestines, blood and blood-soaked saw dust. By-products equal no measurable amount of meat.

Corn or Corn Meal - A low-cost filler with little or no nutritional value.

Corn Syrup - Gives food dampness; a pure carbohydrate (sugar); addictive and indigestible.

Digest - Animal feed-grade ingredients that must be made soluble with the use of heat and moisture. Example: poultry feet, bones, any animal part that can be crushed.

Dry Blood Meal - A cheap source of poor quality, indigestible protein.

Ethoxyquin - A cheap powerful preservative know to behighly carcinogenic. It was originally used as an insecticide and persicide as well as a rubber stabilizer.

Gluten - The sticky substance in corn or wheat starches that gives the starch its tough elastic quality. Helps hold together the pulverized composite of animal fee-grade ingredients.

Meal - Ground or pulverized composite of animal feed-grade ingredients; essentially the same as by-product, but may include traces of meat left over after cleaning and rendering.

MSG - (Monosodium glutamate) a flavour enhancer designed to disguise inferior food quality. Can cause brain and eye damage and allergic reactions.

Propyl Gallate - A chemical preservative and flavour enhancer linked to kidney damage. Also the sweet-tasting chemical found in antifreeze and brake fluid solvents.

Sodium Nitrate and Nitrate - Highly carcinogenic chemical preservatives and colour enhancers.

Soybean Meal - Filler product of little or no nutritional value."


If the food you are currently feeding has 2 or more of these, I would strongly suggest finding a better quality food.


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